It's a small world, and we've bagged the latest Lilliputian gear for travelers.

Peter Lewis

October 12 2006: 4:42 PM EDT

(Fortune Magazine) -- Rand McNally GPS Navigator

Why you need it: The mapmaker now offers one of the smallest and cheapest GPS systems for travelers.

Price: $500, randmcnally.com/gps

Roads change, but roadmaps themselves haven' t much since William Rand and Andrew McNally started printing them in the 1870s - until now. The wallet-sized Rand McNally portable
Navigator is simple and intuitive to use, with a built-in stylus for tapping on the 3.5-inch color display. Besides the latest roadmaps, it comes with 26 Best of the Road trip
itineraries preloaded, showing restaurants, shops and attractions. Don' t leave home without it.

If you have a stout wrist and a sense of decorum that prohibits whipping out your Bluetooth phone in the middle of a meeting every time someone buzzes you, the hefty Abacus MobileWear
wristwatch discreetly shows who' s calling or texting you. Then, at the press of a button, it can mute or reject the call. Only a few phones are currently compatible with the watch;
check the Abacus website for details.

If you already have HDTV, why feed it old-fashioned standard-definition travel movies? Canon' s compact, palm-sized HV10 is small enough to carry anywhere, although its vertical
orientation may take some getting used to. Doubling as a three-megapixel digital camera with a 10X zoom lens, the HV10 records remarkably clear 1,920- by 1,080-pixel high-def movies.

The newest iPod is half the size of the first-generation Shuffle. It also comes with Apple' s new earbud speakers, a modest improvement over the originals. Battery life has been
improved to 12 hours. Otherwise it' s the same happy iPod experience, working seamlessly with Mac or Windows computers and Apple' s iTunes 7.0 software.

BlackBerry Pearl 8100

Why you need it: The newest BlackBerry is small and stylish and aimed at consumers, with a camera and an MP3 player.

RIM, maker of the ubiquitous office BlackBerry, is targeting consumers with a sleek and, dare we say, good-looking new phone and e-mail device. The 1.3-megapixel camera and music
player are just so-so, and the alphanumeric keyboard is small and a bit weird (a full QWERTY keyboard model is said to be in the works), but the Pearl is a gem of a quad-band
worldphone. After all, if you have to get BlackBerry thumb, at least now you can get it in style.